[Dragaera] levidopt

[Mark Mandel]

The names of the jhegaala's developmental stages look and sound like real
biological words, but (except for "egg") I'm pretty sure they're all
invented. Raw Google hits:

   - Apoptera: 2, both in Swedish, typos for *adoptera*, meaning 'adopt'
   - Steminastria: 0
   - Notonide: 0
   - Levidopt: 1, and an interesting one:
       http://www.archive.org/stream/sil34_02_07/sil34_02_07.txt
       coresia Timetes (God.), J. O. Westwood in Doubleday & 'tV., Gen.
   diurn. Levidopt. II
       (1850), 263.-Nymphalis.
   It's a typo or a misscan for "Lepidopt.", an abbreviation for
   "lepidoptera", the order of insects that includes butterflies and moths.
   Similarly, there are 8 raw googits for "levidoptera", all errors for the
   full word. Here's one of them:
   http://www.nwlagardener.org/rgcsmtg080600.html
   There are four stages of butterfly development. During each stage, there
   are entirely different biological needs of the organism which must be met to
   develop a garden which will attract and hold butterflies. The first is the
   *egg *which is generally laid on the leaves of a plant. This plant
   becomes the host plant which the *larvae *the second stage eat. During
   this stage the larvae grow rapidly. The caterpillar - larval stage - can
   molt four to five times till they go into *chrysalis *stage. When the
   insects emerge from this stage they are fully developed *butterflies*.
   During this stage they feed on nectar plants.

Respectfully submitted,
Mark A. Mandel, proprietor, Cracks and Shards
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